Ibo Festival Link Notes: Onisha Festival -The Ibo tribe celebrates a lot of festivals but the most common one is called the Onisha Festival. -The title of the ivory holder can be claimed by any woman who has collected enough ivory and coral to fit her out in the costume. - During a lot of the festivals there would be lots of costumes from being in masks and being dressed in ivories. The Yam Festivals -The yam festival is a big celebration as well and usually held in the beginning of August. -The yam festival celebrates the first crop to be harvested. -People offer yams to gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers and this is their way of giving thanks to the spirits above them. Other Festivals
- In Nigeria there is a festival called the Ague festival which a festival for celebrating the traditional fasting period to represent the struggle with no food or nothing could be harvested.
.-There are tons of ceremonies in the festivals such as Ugvie the festival of cleaning. -The festival that celebrates the return of the ancestors is called the Egungun festival. -A fishing festival called the Angungu festival is held for several days during the months of February and March.
Egungun is a presentational religious art which imagines the collective spirits of the ancestors and builds them out of overlapping or stitched segments of cloth. At times of commemoration of the dead--yearly festivals and successive funeral rites-these remarkable assemblages "come out" to dance, to astound the viewer, correct if need be, and offer blessings from the spiritual world they normally inhabit.
A popular holiday in Nigeria, the Yam Festival is named after the most common food in many African countries. Yams are the first crops to be harvested. People offer yams to gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers. This is their way of giving thanks to the spirits above them.
Ibo Festival Link
Notes:
Onisha Festival
- The Ibo tribe celebrates a lot of festivals but the most common one is called the Onisha Festival.
- The title of the ivory holder can be claimed by any woman who has collected enough ivory and coral to fit her out in the costume.
- During a lot of the festivals there would be lots of costumes from being in masks and being dressed in ivories.
The Yam Festivals
- The yam festival is a big celebration as well and usually held in the beginning of August.
- The yam festival celebrates the first crop to be harvested.
-People offer yams to gods and ancestors first before distributing them to the villagers and this is their way of giving thanks to the spirits above them.
Other Festivals
- In Nigeria there is a festival called the Ague festival which a festival for celebrating the traditional fasting period to represent the struggle with no food or nothing could be harvested.
.- There are tons of ceremonies in the festivals such as Ugvie the festival of cleaning.- The festival that celebrates the return of the ancestors is called the Egungun festival.
- A fishing festival called the Angungu festival is held for several days during the months of February and March.